Peace and Hope in Dark Times (The Value Inquiry Book / The Philosophy of Peace, 385)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Fiala (editor), Sahar Heydari Fard (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays collected here offer original insight into the problem of hope and the philosophy of peace. The essays offer hopeful reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic, recent challenges to democratic norms, climate change, and other emerging threats.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Chapter 1 Hoping With: an Editorial Introduction
1 The Urgency of Hope
2 Hope, Stability, and Individualism
3 Collective Hope
4 Hoping That vs. Hoping With
5 Conclusion
6 Precis of the Volume
References
Part 1 Peace, Hope, and Truth
Chapter 2 Peace and Hope in Dark Times
1 Part One – Dark Times
2 Part 2 – Fear and Insecurity
3 Part 3 – Addressing Fear and Insecurity through Nonviolence
4 Part Four – Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Reconstruction after Trump: Restoring Health, Truth, and Democracy
1 Introduction
1.1 The Dark
1.2 Hope: Coming Back into the Light
2 Mind Viruses and Their Spread
2.1 Mind Viruses
2.2 Spreading Mind Viruses
2.3 The Attack on Truth
2.4 Examples of Dangerous Mind Virus Transmission
3 The Attack on Democracy: the Danger of Mind Viruses
4 The Path of Hope: Reconstruction Begins
4.1 Restoring Heath: Covid-19 Vaccines
4.2 Restoring Truth and Diminishing the Virulence of Mind Viruses
4.3 Restoring Democracy
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Hope as a Moral Perspective: a Performative Language for Peace Activism in a Dark Time
1 Popular Treatments of Hope: Solnit and Eagleton
2 Philosophical Treatments of Hope: Freire and Rorty
3 Stephen Fishman on Moral Hope in Dewey
4 A Moral Perspective on Hope Based on Language Games and Performative Discourse
5 Conclusion: Hope as Beacon and Motor
Works Cited
Part 2 Authoritarianism and Resistance
Chapter 5 Authoritarian Ideology and the Saving Power: Finding Hope in Black Lives Matter and the Youth Climate Movement
1 The Danger in Authoritarian Ideology
2 The Saving Power: Peace and Hope
3 Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 6 The Dilemma of Domestic Fascism
1 Introduction: Staying Behind the Maginot Line
2 Fascism and Interstate Violence
3 The Rise of Domestic Fascism
4 How Fascism Became Domesticated
5 What Can We Do about Domestic Fascism?
Works Cited
Chapter 7 The Moral Pathway Forward for Resisters in a Genocide
1 Dignity Besmirched and Dignity Lost
2 Victim Resisters and the Measure of their Responses
3 Seven Moral Pathways Forward for Resisters
4 Quantitative and Qualitative Determination in Resister Responses Revisited
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8 Does Civil Resistance Rely on the Justice of the Opposing Regime?
1 Discrimination and Liability
2 The Only Response
3 Conclusions
References
Part 3 Current Issues
Chapter 9 Fake News in the Information Age: the Challenges It Poses for Peace
1 Introduction
2 How Fake News Contributes to Truth-Decay and Poses Challenges for Peace
3 Facts and How to Find Them
4 How Citizens Can Develop a More Epistemically Responsible View of the Press
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10 Feminism and the Need to Confront White Privilege
References
Chapter 11 Broadening the Category of Moral Injury to Better Grasp the Wrong of Violence
1 Some Preliminary Clarifications
2 On the Connection between Nonviolence, Peace, and an Understanding of Harm
3 The Value of Stoicism for Peace Theorists
4 Differences in Welfare as Instructive
5 Different Categories of Welfare as Applicable to Human Beings
6 When the Ability to Morally Function Is Unnecessarily Hampered
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 12 Josef Pieper’s Defense of St. Thomas Aquinas on Peace
1 Introduction – What Is Peace? The New Struggle
2 Aquinas’ Commentary on the Gospel of St. John 14:7
3 Medieval Wisdom for Modern Peace: Amor est causa pacis (14, 7)
4 Modern Wisdom for Modern Peace: Tolerantia est causa pacis
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Abbreviation of Ancient/Biblical Works
Biblical
Ancient
Aristotle
Plato
Medieval
Dionysius
St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas
References
Part 4 Practical Applications
Chapter 13 Building Peace, Repairing Hope: Restorative Mediation an Effective Approach
1 Mediation and Modern PACS Education
2 Implementing Restorative Practices
3 Participating in Interest-Based Mediation
4 Building Hope through Dialogue
5 Finalizing Mediated Agreements
6 Concluding Remarks
Works Cited
Chapter 14 Spaces for Action: Opportunities for Hope in Dark Times
1 Hazards of Applying the Mode of Fabrication to Human Affairs
2 Forming and Strengthening Spaces of Appearance
3 Opportunities Afforded by Spaces of Appearance
4 Candlelight
References
Chapter 15 On Giving Birth to Hope in Darkness
1 The Ubiquity of Darkness
2 Complicity and Posterity
3 On Giving Birth to Hope
References
Index
Back Cover